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Alysa Liu

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Alysa Liu is an American figure skater born in 2005 who has won titles at the very top of the sport. She is the 2026 Olympic champion in both the women's singles and the team event, the 2025 World champion and the 2025-26 Grand Prix Final champion, and she also took World bronze in 2022. She first drew attention as a young prodigy, becoming the youngest woman to win a United States national title in 2019 at the age of 13, and then winning a second national title a year later. After a period away from competition she returned and won the 2025 World title, the first for an American woman since Kimmie Meissner in 2006. She is known for her jumping, and she was the first woman to land a quadruple jump and a triple Axel in the same program.

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Birth Year
2005 1
Gender
Female 1
Medals or Titles Band
2-4 1
Gold Medals
2 1
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Source Olympedia: Alysa Liu - Olympedia
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is an American figure skater
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1. Olympedia: Alysa Liu - Olympedia
Olympedia
  • Biographical information, born
    Born 8 August 2005 in Clovis, California USA
  • Biographical information, sex
    Sex Female
  • Medals, Olympic gold count
    Gold 2 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 2
  • Medals, Olympic medal total
    Gold 2 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 2
  • Competed In: 2022 Winter Olympics, Results, 2022 Winter Olympics
    2022 Winter Olympics Figure Skating
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Alysa Liu (Wikipedia)
  • Lead, nationality
    is an American figure skater
  • Plays: Figure Skating, Lead
    is an American figure skater
  • Competed In: 2026 Winter Olympics, Lead
    At the 2026 Winter Olympics, she became the first American woman to win an individual medal since Sasha Cohen in 2006
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